2 Pakistani Climbers Beat The Deadliest Mount Annapurna

Web Desk — Shehroze Kashif and Naila Kiani, two Pakistani climbers, made the nation proud by surmounting Mt. Annapurna 1 (8091) in Nepal. They hoisted the Pakistani flag on top of the mountain.

According to Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club Pakistan, Shehroze and Naila along with other members of the Seven Summit Treks team successfully completed their Mt Annapurna expedition on Monday morning between 6:30 to 7:30 am.

This is once again a feather in Pakistan’s hat that its citizen Shehroze becomes the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit 11 peaks above 8000 meters. Likewise, Naila has become the first Pakistani woman to have climbed Annapurna. Naila is the first Pakistani woman climber to have summitted four peaks above 8,000-metre.

Secretary Alpine Club Mr. Haidri said earlier on Saturday that Sajid Ali Sadpara successfully ascended Annapurna without oxygen. According to Haidri, this was his fourth 8,000’er summit, and all of them climbed without oxygen. This is quite impressive that Pakistani climbers are setting new records in mountaineering.

Three Pakistani climbers, as Haidri said, were initially together at the base camp. Naila and Shehroze chose a different schedule to attempt the peak as both were climbing with supplemental oxygen.

Shehroze Kashif Achievements

Born on March 11, 2002, in Lahore, Shehroze (21) makes history as he is the youngest climber in the world to summit K2 on July 27, 2021.

On May 11, 2021, he became the youngest Pakistani to summit Mount Everest. The Sports Board of Punjab made him the youth ambassador of Punjab after the successful summit of Mount Everest.

Shehroze Kashif was called The Broad Boy after he summited Broad Peak at the age of 17. He started mountain expeditions at the age of 11 with Makra Peak being the first one. At the age of 12 he surmounted Musa ka Musalla and Chembra Peak, Mingli Sar in Shimshal while he was just 13, Khurdopin Pass at 15, and Khosar Gang in alpine style when he was just 18.

Shehroze has won two Guinness World Records for being the youngest to have climbed K2 and the Broad Peak. On May 5, 2022, he reached the summit of Kangchenjunga and became the youngest in the world and the first Pakistani to reach this peak. Kangchenjunga is the third-highest peak in the world. Shehroze, on May 16, 2022, summited the world’s fourth-highest peak, Mount Lhotse (8,516m), in Nepal.

For summiting Mount Everest and K2 in 2023, Guinness World Records recognized him on November 1, 2022.

Naila Kiani Introduction

Mother of two, Naila is a Dubai-based Pakistani banker and an amateur boxer. She came to the limelight for her wedding photo shoot at K2 basecamp in 2018.

She summited Gasherbrum-II (8035m) in 2021 and Gasherbrum-I (8068m) and in July 2022, K2 (8,611), the world’s second-highest mountain. After Samina Baig, Naila Kianai was the first Pakistani woman to climb K2.

Sajid Sadpara Achievements

Sajid Sadpara who is taking his late father Ali Sadpara’s legacy ahead summited K2, Gasherbrum-I, and Gasherbrum-II in Pakistan and Manaslu (8,163m) in Nepal without supplementary oxygen. His aim is to climb all of the world’s 14 eight-thousanders without supplemental oxygen.

Sajid climbed K2 twice, one time without supplemental oxygen. In 2022, he summited the Manaslu Peak without supplemental oxygen to become the first Pakistani to do so.

Sajid has the honor to have scaled both Gasherbrum-I and Gasherbrum-II in three days and 18 hours without supplemental oxygen.

Mt. Annapurna

Mt. Annapurna is the world’s 10th highest mountain situated in Gandaki province of Nepal. It is well known for its difficulty and offers a lot of challenges to climbers.

ANNAPURNA I THE DEADLIEST MOUNTAIN

Here, the ratio of deaths to successful summit survivors is the highest in the world. One person dies among every three who successfully make it up the mountain and back down, one person dies.